Button and buttonhole marker combined.



i. A. GORMAN.

BUTTON AND BUTTONHOLE MARKER COMBINED.

APPLICATION FILED APR. II. 1916. 1,225,615, Patented May 8, 1917.

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WITNESSES A TTOR/VEVS IIIT S JOHN ALFRED GORMAN, OF NEWTON, NEW JERSEY.

BUTTON AND BUTTONHOLE MARKER COMBINED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 1917.

Application filed April 11, 1916. Serial No. 90,340.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JOHN A. GORMAN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Newton, in the county of Sussex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Button and Buttonhole Marker Combined, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to shoe marking machinery and particularly to an improved arrangement for locating the buttons and buttonholes, and has for an object the provision of an improved arrangement whereby the quarters of a shoe may be marked both for the buttons and buttonholes.

Another object in view is to provide an improved arrangement which will automatically feed the quarters of a shoe therethrough and mark the same at desired intervals with markings both for the buttons and buttonholes.

A still further object in view is to provide a marking device in which the quarters are gripped by the marking member and moved the required distance and again gripped, the gripping action producing a mark so that the marks on the quarters will be equally spaced.

In the accompanying drawings Figure 1 is a top plan view of a marking device embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is a side View of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front view of the structure shown in Fig. 1.

Fig. 4 is a detail fragmentary sectional view approximately on line 44 of Fig. 5.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary top plan view of the center part of the device, certain members being shown in section for better illustrating the construction and certain members being shown in dotted lines in a second position. I

Referring to the accompanying drawings by numerals, 1 indicates a suitable frame formed in any desided way, as for instance, of cast metal. This frame supports the various operating parts of the device including a platform 2 which is preferably cast integral with the frame but spaced therefrom and supported by the end walls 3 whereby an opening or passageway 4 is provided into which the anvil 5 projects and in which said anvil moves or swings back and forth. Anvil 5 carries a contact pin 6 which extends into the slot 7 in the platform 2 and is preferably arranged to be flush with said platform so as to act as a support for the end 7 of the resilient arm 8, which resilient arm is rigidly secured by screws 9 or otherwise (Fig. 1) to the arm 10 extending from the swinging bar 11, which swinging bar merges into and is preferably formed integral with the anvil 5. A spur 12 is connected with end 7 and arranged to indent or piercethe quarters of a shoe when the device is in operation, said quarters or the spur itself being forced into the recess 13 in the bar 14 which is rigidly secured to a lever 15. The lever 15 is arranged to move downwardly as hereinafter fully described so that the bar 14 may press against the end 7 until end 7 is pressing tightly against pin 6, whereupon the quarters will be indented or pierced and held in position as the parts move to one side, as

shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5.

In order to hold the quarters in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5 while the bar 14 and associated parts move back to their former position, a gripping and holding foot 16 is provided which moves downwardly to grip the quarters of the shoe substantially simultaneously with the up-- ward or releasing movement of the bar 14. l/Vhile the gripping foot 16 is holding the quarters in their proper position the bar 14 moves upwardly and back to its original position and then downwardly for repeating the operation. In order that the gripping member or foot 16 may properly operate the same is rigidly secured to a shaft 17, which shaft extends downwardly through the frame 1, as shown in Fig. 3, and is held against rotation by a pin 18. A coiled spring19 surrounds the shaft 17, as shown in Fig. 3, and presses against the frame 1 and against a stop 20 for normally holding the foot 16 depressed or tightly engaging the quarters or the platform 2 when the quarters are removed.

The shaft 17 is raised by a lever 21 operated by placing the foot upon an extension 22 or automatically by pin 23 striking the surface 24 of the cam member 25. Pin 23 is rigidly secured to a cam wheel 26,

which cam wheel is rigidly secured to shaft 27 journaled in suitable bearings supported by the frame 1. The cam wheel 26 is provided with a cam groove 28 for accommodating the pin 29' and by the shape of the cam groove 28 the pin 29 willremain in an elevated position for more than half the revolution of the wheel and will then move downwardly and stay in the lowered position for a part of a revolution and then move upwardly again, as shown more clearly in Fig. The pin 29 is connected with a shaft 30, which shaft is bifurcated or formed with a transverse base 31 separating into arms '32 anc 33, which arms extend upwardly through suitable openings in the frame 1 so as to support the bar 34. Bar 34 extends through a suitable bearing member 35 slidingly mounted in the opening 36 of the lever 15, whereupon whenever pin 29 is moved downwardly bar 34, together with lever 15, will be moved downwardly and whenever moved upwardly these parts will make corresponding movement. Opening 36 is made sufficiently longand the arms 32 and 33 are spaced sufiiciently far apart to allow a swinging movement of the swinging bar 11 and a swingingmovement of the le-- ver 15, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5.

The; cam wheel 26 acting through the parts just described actuates the lever 15 in an up and down movement but in order to swing this lever in a horizontal plane. the swinging'bar 11 is provided with upstanding members 37 and 38 which straddle the lever 15, which lever is pivotally mounted at 39 on an elevated or offset portion 40 of thebar 11. It will be observed that the bar -11' is pivotally mounted on the frame 1 by a suitable pivotal pin or bolt 41 and swings back and forth within the limits allowed by the mechanism hereinafter fully described. As shown more particularly in Figs. 1 and 5 the offset portion of bar 11 is provided with a slot 42 while a pivotal lever 43 arranged beneath the same andpivoted at 44 on frame 1 is provided with a slot 45 of preferably the same length as slot 42. A journal member 46 is arranged to slide back and forth in the slot 42 while a similar journalmomber 47 is arranged to slide back and forth in the slot 42, these ournal members being connected by a pin 48, said pin extending through a bearing member 49 having an eX- tension 50 to which link 51-is pivotally con nected. Link 51 is pivotally connectedat 52 to an arm pivotally mounted at 44 and held in any desired adjusted position by a suitable locking member, as forinstance, pin 54, which pin extends through slot 55 into any of the apertures 56 in. plat-e57.

The lever 43 has the outer or free end thereof pivotally connected with link 58, which. link is given a back and forth moveinent by arm 59, which arm is rigidly secured' to shaft 60, which shaft extends through a suitable bearing "1 (Fig. 2) and has an arm 62 secured thereto, which arm carries pin 63 operating in the groove 64 ofcam wheel 65 rigidly secured to shaft 27. Shaft 27 may be driven by any suitable means, as for instance, gear wheel 68 (Fig. 3) which gear: wheel meshes with pinion 69, said pinion being connected with shaft 7 0 to whichthe pulley 71 is rigidly secured, said pulley receiving power from any suitable source (not shown). By providing the groove 64 and cam 65 and connecting the same with the link 58 the lever 43 is given the same movement continually, but by the arrangement of the pin 48 and the various bearing members connected therewith the swinging movement of bar 11 may be varied. When it is desired to give the forward or operating end of lever 15 a greater swing, the arm 53 is moved in such a direction that the slide 47 will operatenear the outer or free end of lever 43 and the bearing member or slide 46 will also operate near the pivotal bolt 41. If a less swinging is desired to the operating end' of lever 15 the position of these members is reversed. The arm 53'and associated parts are adjusted'only once for a given distance and as long as the quarters of shoes having the buttonholes and buttons at'the desired distance are being fed to the machine, the adjustment is not varied. However, when it is desired to make the buttonholes and place the buttons; closer together or farther apart a corresponding adjustment is made for such purpose.

When feeding a pair of quarters throughthe machine as shown in ig. 5 for marking the same, the operator utilizes the guide 72, which guide may be a substantially U- shaped piece of material, as shown in Fig 2, with a bent down end or railing 73 for engaging the flap as shown in Fig. 5, thereby evenly spacing the indentations or perforations from the top. The guide 72 may be held in place by a suitable screw or otherwise as desired.

1 claim '1. In a device of the character described,

a platform for receiving the quarters of a pair of shoes, a pin for marking or pierc-' ing said quarters, a pressing bar for pressing said quarters against said pin, and means for moving the pin together with said pressing bar while the pin is engaging the quarters so as to move the quarters.

2. In a marking machine of the character described, a marking pin, means for causing the same to engage a pair of quarters, said means including mechanism for causing. the pin to press against the quarters and swinging mechanism for moving, said last mentioncdmeans and said pin while the pin 7 is in engagement withthe uppers for moving the uppers apredetermined distance.

3. In a marker of the character described,

ing device being formed with a pair of gripping members for gripping the quarters, means for moving the grlppmg members forward while gripping said quarters, means for causing the gripping members to release the quarters and move back a predetermined distance from the first gripping point ready for a second operation, and a clamping mechanism for holding the quarters against movement while the marking mechanism is moving back to again grip the quarters.

4. In a marking device of the character described, a platform provided with a slot therein, an anvil extending beneath said platform, a pin connected with said anvil and extending into said slot so that the upper end will be flush with the platform, a presser bar arranged above said pin, a piercing or marking member arranged between said presser bar and said pin, means for operating said presser bar for moving the same down against said piercing member and moving the piercing member against said pin, and means for swinging said anvil, presser bar and parts associated therewith including said quarters a predetermined distance.

5. In a marker of the character described, a platform for receiving quarters of shoes to be marked, said platform having a slot therein, a swinging bar having a pin extending through said slot so as to be flush with'the top of the platform, a quarter marking member arranged above said pin, a presser bar for pressing said quarters against said marker and said marker in turn against said pin, means for swinging the pin, presser bar and associated parts including the quarters a predetermined distance, means for gripping and holding the quarters against return movement, and means for causing said pin to alternately grip and release said quarters.

6. In a marker of the character described, a platform, a marking member arranged adjacent said platform, a movable member adapted to force the quarters of a shoe against said marker, means for swinging said movable member and the marker together with the quarters a predetermined distance, means for holding said quarters against return movement, and means for causing said movable member to move toward and from said quarters.

7. In a marker of the character described, a marking device, a presser bar adapted to press the quarters of apair of shoes against said marking device, a lever for operating said presser bar, a bifurcated member having a transverse shaft engaging said lever, a cam wheel acting on said bifurcated member for moving the same up and down so as to swing the lever carrying said presser bar,

and means for moving the presser bar and said lever together with said marker back and forth substantially transversely of the movement of said lever.

8. In a marker of the character described, a marking member, a bar for pressing quarters against said marking member, means for moving said presser bar and said marker in such a direction as to feed the quarters through the device, mechanism for operating said marker and said presser bar for causing said movement, and a member for holding the quarters against a reverse movement.

9. A marker for marking simultaneously the two quarters carrying the buttons and the buttonholes, said marker comprising a marking structure, a presser member for pressing the quarters against the marking structure, means for swinging said presser member and said marking structure so as to move the quarters forwardly, means for releasing said presser member from the quarters and then moving the same back to its former position, and a presser foot engaging said quarters for preventing a reverse movement of the quarters during the reverse movement of the presser member.

10. In a marker of the character described, a marking pin or projection, a presser bar for pressing quarters against said pin or projection, means for moving said presser bar downwardly against said quarters, means for swinging said presser bar, said means including a cam, and a plurality of connecting members for connecting the cam with said presser bar, said connecting members including means for adjusting the throw of the presser bar in order to vary the distance between the markings whenever desired.

11'. In a marker of the character described, a pivotally mounted bar, means for swinging said bar back and forth horizontally, a lever having one end pivotally mounted on said bar, means extending from said bar for causing the lever to swing with the bar horizontally, means for moving said lever vertically pivotally, a marking member connected with said horizontally pivotally mounted bar, and a presser bar connected with said lever for pressing quarters against said marking member.

' 12. In a marker of the character described, a pivotally mounted bar, means for swinging said bar, said means including an adjustable member for varying the swinging motion of the bar, a lever pivotally mounted on said bar, means for causing said lever to swing horizontally with said bar, a power member for moving said lever pivotally independent of said swinging bar, a marking member mounted on said swinging bar, and a presser bar mounted on said lever, said marking member and said presser bar causing the marking of quarters and the movement of the same by reason of the swinging movement of said bar, and a presser member for preventing a reverse movement of the quarters during the return movement of said marking member and the presser bar.

' 18. In a marker of the character described, 5 a horizontal swinging bar, means acting thereon for swinging the same, a lever pivotally mounted at one end of said bar, means extending from said bar and overlapping said lever for swinging the lever with the 10 bar, power means for moving said lever pivotally, said power means including a rotating earn, areciprocating member actuated by said cam, a transverse bar extending through said lever, and means connected withsaid swinging bar and said. lever for 15 marking andfeeding the quarters of shoes intermittently.

JOHN ALFRED GORMAN.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM J VALLER, JOHN T. GORMAN.

Copies of this patent-may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

' Washington, 1).. 0. 

